For creator Sam Barlow and his studio Half Mermaid Productions, the push to eccentric cinematography continues with Immortality, as the video game elements fade further into the background. Some may find this odd collection of indie flicks enticing, but m...
Published: 2022-08-30, Author: Mark , review by: gamespot.com
Drenched in mystery that the player unravels at their own pace, Fantastic performances and production make for an authentic time-hopping story, Scarier than it lets on, Cleverly subverts its own niche genre
So dense in mystery and misdirection that it can often feel impenetrable
Published: 2022-08-30, Author: Eric , review by: destructoid.com
Abstract: It's rare to see a magic trick pulled off in a video game the way Immortality does it.By the time I knew something was up with Sam Barlow and Half Mermaid's latest FMV mystery, I had already ripped open Pandora's Box. I just didn't know it yet. Little hin...
10 Somehow, Immortality does the impossible. From its extraordinary cast to the tremendous writing and elegant systems that enable us to interact with every frame of this stunning creation, it really couldn't have been executed any better. Go in unspo...
Abstract: So, that's another year of summer game announcements on the book. There are a few more streams on the horizon, but for now, we've gotten a taste of just about all of the upcoming games we can handle. Developers threw what felt like an endless stream of ne...
Published: 2022-06-13, Author: Eric , review by: destructoid.com
Abstract: Whatever happened to Marissa Marcel? That's the question at the core of Immortality, the latest from Sam Barlow's Half Mermaid. It's the third mystery from Barlow and co. told in full-motion video, or FMV, but it's much more than a retread. In some ways...
Abstract: In the late 1960s, Marissa Marcel was an actor on the brink of Hollywood success. Beautiful, young and talented, she was selected from thousands in an open casting to star in a famous (and famously mean) director's hypersexual arthouse-cinema adaptation o...
Published: 2022-08-30, Author: Sam , review by: gamesradar.com
Abstract: I hold the pieces of Marissa Marcel's life in my head. Tiny fragments of missed glances, passionate kisses, forbidden lust, and things that maybe we weren't meant to see. Three movies, all unreleased, and at the center of it all - a missing woman. What di...
Abstract: Connecting the three unreleased films is Marissa Marcel (played by Manon Gage), a model turned actress who starred in each of the doomed productions and subsequently never worked again. She's introduced in the opening clip of Immortality by way of a 1969...
